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FYI…I’m sending letters to every member of the Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation Subcommittee outlining the need to update the existing means of processing deferrals.I’m sure that’s how they view it but I think it’s BS. Congress made it possible for 80,000 pilots to go onto Basic Med and no longer burden OKC. Aeromed could reduce their workload dramatically if they’d expand the CACI list and delegate more authority to AMEs.
But bureaucracies don’t behave that way. They cling to power and try to enlarge their empires. Their answer is always “we need more money.” It’s never about finding a way to get the job done within the available resources.
This will continue until some bureaucrats get fired for not doing their jobs.
With the proliferation and preponderance of “diagnoses” and prescribed medications for ADHD, anxiety etc, this is going to put an increasing % of applicants into the deferral process. This will only exacerbate the already bottlenecked process.
There is absolutely zero reason HIMS AMEs cannot handle the 90%+ of deferrals that are ultimately approved and a bureaucrat saying “I don’t want that to happen” isn’t a good reason not to do so.